D. N. Vercáriâ
Group: citizens
(4498 posts total)
(last post: March 15, 2008 - 16:51)
Citizen #26:
Dieter N Vercáriâ | > The funny thing is, I know an older gentleman who once met Enver Hoxha his own self. He was a member of the Communist Party in my country in the 1970s, when it was the only Western communist party to ally itself with neither Moscow nor Peking, but with Tiranë. He went to Albania to give fraternal greetings, and Enver Hoxha his own self gave my acquaintance a big hug. I'm not making this up.
I knew people of the same conviction, who went to Tirana, too, but they didn't get to meet Hoxha. I kind of envied them for having seen an almost unreachable touristic destination, but I didn't fully understand why Albania should be a role model for West Germany. Going on a tangent, the German service of Radio Tirana was living in a future that nobody knew about; I once heard how they reported that the revolution had begun in Bremen. No-one in said area would have confirmed that. Anyway I was amaazed by Radio Tirana's version of the Internationale, very bombastic, with thundering kettle drums and a lot of brass.
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- Dieter
A long history is fine, a long future is better.
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